[Electronics-Talk] Amazon fire sticks

[Ben Fulton]

Hi all,

I recently got the firestick. I'm having a bit of difficulty with the accessibility. When I go into the netflicks ap the voice assist stops reading the menu items. The up and down buttons still work. A sighted friend tells me that the remote is still working, and the items show up on the screen, but the voice assist doesn't read when I go to a new show.

Does anyone have any ideas about what to do here. Has anyone else had this problem. Is the fire stick generally compatable with netflicks, or is this just a problem with the ap?

Any work arounds would be appreciated. I can ask alexa to play a specific show, but unfortunately it always starts at the first episode.
 
Kind regards,
Ben


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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 16:51:31 -0400
From: "Star Gazer" <pickrellrebecca at gmail.com>
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				We have had our Toshiba Fire tv for a few weeks now and it is awesome! 

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From: Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Daniel Perry via Electronics-Talk
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 9:15 AM
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Cc: Daniel Perry <karate at centurylink.net>
Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Amazon fire sticks

it actually only seems to happen on amazon prime, and I did some research since the last time you and I spoke, and it turns out that you can indeed skip the adds by simply pressing the skip button. I'll verify this to be sure but I'm almost positive that you can skip them. I know that was a concern of yours because of your children which makes lots of sense.

-----Original Message-----
From: Star Gazer via Electronics-Talk
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 8:51 AM
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Cc: Star Gazer
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How often do the adds appear on the Toshiba Fire tv?

Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 15, 2019, at 7:37 AM, Mike via Electronics-Talk 
> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> I bought the 24 inch Insignia fire tv with Alexa built in. The problem 
> was about 2 times a week in the middle of the night it would say voice 
> view ready! This was with the tv shut off! This is a soft wear 
> problem. No one could figure out how to stop this. My tv was in the 
> bedroom & I was not going to be woke up by the tv 2 times a week. The 
> ecko show does the same thing, but you can tell it to go home & that 
> stopes the behavior for the most part but not 100%. I sent it back & 
> got the fire stick with Alexa remote & really like it.
> Mike
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> From: Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf 
> Of Star Gazer via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2019 5:43 PM
> To: 'Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances'
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> Cc: Star Gazer <pickrellrebecca at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Amazon fire sticks
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> Thank you. We are trying to decide, and you may know, if the firestick 
> will work with our tv, we got it in 2012. We are trying to decide if 
> we want a firestick or spring for the tv with the firestick built in, 
> husband isn't sure he wants involuntary adds.
> Are you sure there isn't a youtube app for the firestick? Sounds like 
> an odd oversight.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf 
> Of Melissa Kane via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:58 PM
> To: Star Gazer via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Melissa Kane <mdsmith32811 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] Amazon fire sticks
>
> The Fire Stick is very accessible, in my experience. We have used our 
> with Sling TV, CBS All Access, PBS, Amazon Prime, and probably a 
> couple other apps as well. I just which there was a youtube TV app for 
> the
Fire Stick.
>
>
> Melissa Kane
>
>> On 4/14/2019 1:30 PM, Star Gazer via Electronics-Talk wrote:
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone how accessible are these? We want to try them.